Never Mistake a Queen for a Lapdog novel Chapter 912

It was a remarkably soothing temperature.

A soft, involuntary sigh escaped her throat, her eyelids too heavy to even attempt opening.

"How did your fever get this high? Did you take anything for it?"

Just to be safe, Seth pulled a thermometer from the bag he had brought with him and checked her temperature.

A hundred and two point five.

Noreen's voice was terribly weak from the fever. "No. I only had basic cold medicine at home."

The fever had drained all the color from her face, leaving even her lips a ghostly shade of pale.

"Should I take you to the hospital?" he asked, keeping his tone gentle and inquiring.

He asked because he knew how much Noreen despised hospitals.

It likely stemmed from her middle school years, when she constantly ran back and forth to the hospital to care for Rosalind Gilmore. That trauma had left her with a deep-seated aversion to medical wards.

She always felt like the hospital was an entity that could snatch her mother away at any moment.

Unsurprisingly, Noreen shook her head in refusal. "It's just the flu. I'll be fine after I sleep it off."

"Do you seriously think you're made of iron?" Seth sighed, completely helpless against her stubbornness.

But because he knew her habits perfectly, he had come prepared.

The bag he carried contained prescription-strength flu medication he had just picked up from the hospital, along with a box of painkillers.

"Lie back down. I'll get you some water." Seth reached out to support her.

Noreen tried to push him away, but her illness had left her so weak that the slight exertion only made her sway unsteadily on her feet.

She massaged her throbbing temples and asked, "Why are you here?"

"Sophia Cole told me you were sick," Seth answered truthfully, deciding not to hide it.

That little traitor.

Noreen cursed her assistant in her head, then glanced at the front door. "And how do you know my passcode?"

"You told me last night," Seth explained calmly.

"When I brought you home last night, you gave me the code yourself."

Noreen was speechless.

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